Eleven so far . . .
Apr. 26th, 2010 02:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dbskylerTime to do a reaction post. This contains spoilers for "The Eleventh Hour" and "The Beast Below." (Those are the only episodes I've seen so far; please don't give away spoilers for later episodes!)
On the whole, I like the Eleventh Doctor. I like that he's "a madman with a box," I like that he's less emo than Ten, and I like that he's still very definitely the Doctor. That said, while I didn't miss Tennant at all in "Eleventh Hour," there were some moments in "Beast Below" where I thought he would've done a better job than Smith did. That might just be the normal process of getting used to a new Doctor, though.
I thought "Eleventh Hour" was a great piece of television. I thought "Beast Below" was a lousy piece of television. Oh well, at least now I know that when Steven Moffat writes things that make no sense, it annoys me just as much as when RTD does it.
I guess we have another "arc" thing going throughout the series, ending up with silence falling or something. I'd just as soon do without the series-long arcs, but I'm willing to go along for the ride and see where it takes us. I have to admit that I didn't even catch the crack on the TARDIS monitor or on Starship UK until I read other people's reaction posts, but I guess it will be showing up again. Here's the question, though -- is the crack following them, did it just happen to show up where they've been (or possibly was there before they arrived)? Is there a connection between the crack and Amy, considering that it was on her bedroom wall? Could she even be the cause of the crack?
Also, I wonder if the Doctor's trouble getting the TARDIS to the right time in "Eleventh Hour" was actually due to the crack as opposed to the Doctor's lack of steering ability.
(Speculation in comments is welcome, but no spoilers please.)
On the whole, I like the Eleventh Doctor. I like that he's "a madman with a box," I like that he's less emo than Ten, and I like that he's still very definitely the Doctor. That said, while I didn't miss Tennant at all in "Eleventh Hour," there were some moments in "Beast Below" where I thought he would've done a better job than Smith did. That might just be the normal process of getting used to a new Doctor, though.
I thought "Eleventh Hour" was a great piece of television. I thought "Beast Below" was a lousy piece of television. Oh well, at least now I know that when Steven Moffat writes things that make no sense, it annoys me just as much as when RTD does it.
I guess we have another "arc" thing going throughout the series, ending up with silence falling or something. I'd just as soon do without the series-long arcs, but I'm willing to go along for the ride and see where it takes us. I have to admit that I didn't even catch the crack on the TARDIS monitor or on Starship UK until I read other people's reaction posts, but I guess it will be showing up again. Here's the question, though -- is the crack following them, did it just happen to show up where they've been (or possibly was there before they arrived)? Is there a connection between the crack and Amy, considering that it was on her bedroom wall? Could she even be the cause of the crack?
Also, I wonder if the Doctor's trouble getting the TARDIS to the right time in "Eleventh Hour" was actually due to the crack as opposed to the Doctor's lack of steering ability.
(Speculation in comments is welcome, but no spoilers please.)